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comment previews should reflect markup accurately
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Comment previews should render HTML in the comment as it is written, not silently correct it.
Full description of the ideaThe purpose of a preview is to see how something will look before it is submitted, so the user can make changes and correct errors. The
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LiveJournal does in fact do pretty much exactly the same in comment previews as it does in the actual comments. The problem, as cos pointed out, is that it can depend on the style in which it's displayed.
In this particular case, when you write text more text the cleaner will change it into text more text. By default your browser will not decorate "more text" because it's not a hyperlink. However, the CSS of the particular journal to which this particular comment was posted contains an instruction which colours all elements green regardless of whether they are hyperlinks. So the posted comment looks different from the preview, but ( ... )
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For discussion, the mentioned support request: http://www.livejournal.com/support/see_request.bml?id=1107449
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This is an obvious YES for me, as I frequently use HTML in comments -- and I do Preview to attempt to make sure it's going to post correctly.
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